William R. Beard, Jr. v. Gary J. Livesay, Warden Robert Davies, Acting Warden and Evans Fine, Director of Offender Classification

BOYCE F. MARTIN, Jr., Circuit Judge.

The defendants, prison officials of the state of Tennessee, appeal the district court’s grant of summary judgment to the plaintiff prisoner, William Beard. The district court held that under Tennessee statutes and regulations the reclassification of a prison inmate from minimum to medium security without a hearing implicated a protectible liberty interest under the fourteenth amendment. The court ordered the prison officials to expunge from Beard’s record all references to his transfer and reclassification, but denied his requests for restoration of his…